3. General Objects of the Corporation

The general objects for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be —

to unite all visually handicapped people living in

to provide welfare services to the visually handicapped and to seek solutions to common and individual problems confronted by the visually handicapped community;

to inform the State and other organisations with regard to common and individual issues confronted by the visually handicapped community ;

to create awareness among the visually handicapped community on the various services provided for them by the State and other organisation and to assist them to derive benefits from such programmes ;

to create awareness among the general public with regard to the services and assistance required by the visually handicapped community ;

to make appropriate efforts to eliminate misconceptions and false attitudes prevailing in the society regarding blindness and blind people ;

to act as a mediator to find solutions to legal issues confronted by the visually handicapped community ;

to liaise with other organisations having objects similar to those the Corporation ;

to raise funds in order to provide necessary welfare services to the visually handicapped community ;

to act in every possible way to eradicate causes of blindness ;

to establish and maintain “homes for the aged”

to establish and maintain rehabilitation centres and welfare centres for the visually handicapped community ; and

to take all other steps as are necessary or desirable for the promotion of all or any of the foregoing objects.